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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT
by Don Polson Red
Bluff Daily News 2/28/2017

Swedish Muslims and American press

A little over a week ago, President Donald Trump (he’s
the only president with my first name) elicited howls from the usual “main
stream news media (MSN)” partisans, even a Swedish leader, over a clumsily
phrased assertion about problems Sweden is experiencing from refugees and
immigrants. Non-MSN observers and analysts (and Trump in a tweet) correctly
pointed to a segment on Tucker Carlson’s Friday night Fox News show, not a
terrorist attack.

I found Mr. Trump’s grasp of several issues to be
under whelming during the presidential campaign. I winced—even
disapproved—when, for instance, he lambasted a judge for his Mexican descent;
and when he recently disparaged, as “so-called,” a judge in Washington state
that ruled against his immigration executive orders. The Hispanic judge may
indeed have had an anti-Trump prejudice in the lawsuit before him; and the
judicial opinions from the Washington and 9th Circuit Court judges
were horrible rulings that ignored the plain text of the Constitution and
established immigration law. Those were inappropriate statements by Trump.

It must also be acknowledged that Trump’s spokesman
accurately stated that the judiciary is “a coequal,” not a superior, branch of
government. Judges have a long history of getting major issues completely wrong
(i.e. Dred Scott decision denying blacks the right, as citizens, to sue in
federal courts). I think that Trump is on a learning curve and getting better
by the day.

Trump’s statement, the outcry and subsequent analysis
have, to the chagrin of his supporters (including this writer), shown that
taking Trump “seriously, not literally” has once again shown him to be spot on.
The MSN and Democrats (a redundancy given the 80 to 90 percent of news media
people that support, vote for and contribute to the Dems) engaged in another
“ready, fire, aim” knee-jerk pile on.

Look up: “Trump Was Right; Migrants Riot, Loot, Fight
with Police and Set Cars On Fire in Sweden—While the media was dismissing
Trump, riots were breaking out in the immigrant suburb of Rinkeby in Stockholm”
(by Chris Menahan); “Looks Like Donald Trump Was Right About Sweden After All”
(by Emily Zanotti); and “The Silly Sweden Flap” and “More Evidence That Trump
Was Right About Sweden” (by John Hinderaker).

It is now incontrovertible that Sweden has joined
Germany, France and other countries in trying the risky “open borders”
experiment with their own citizen population. They have no inoculation against
the violence, sexual depredations, idleness and reliance on government benefits
that followed Syrians and other Muslim refugees into Europe.

A chart showing official Swedish sex crime data,
“Reported Sex Offences,” showed the dramatic increase in annual criminal sex acts over
the last 10 years—from about 12,000 to nearly 20,000. Liberal/progressive
European blinders cannot hide the irreconcilable cultural and religious divide,
some might say subversion, that follows such refugees and immigrants—not all,
to be sure, but a sizable, unapologetic core.

Despite the wishes and fantasies of native Europeans,
Muslim enclaves form, which can devolve into shariah-adhering, Islamic
fundamentalism-enforcing, “no go” zones for police and other emergency
services. The riots mentioned above sprang up without outside organization in
response to an attempt to arrest one immigrant drug offender. That produced
spontaneous violence directed at, not just those simply enforcing the law, but
also against the fire fighting personnel arriving to put out the burning cars
and other fires set by the violent crowds.

“The Swedish government’s response to the increased
crime attendant upon mass Islamic immigration is along the lines of, ‘Who are
you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?’ The bottom line is that when it
comes to Sweden and immigration, Trump was right (J. Hinderaker, 2/20).” Most
Americans agree with President Trump when he says, “Here’s the bottom line.
We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening. We’ve got to
keep our country safe…(Sweden) took in large numbers. They’re having problems
like they never thought possible.” Liberals put their collective heads in
ideological sand; don’t trust them to keep us safe.

Another ill-stated opinion from Trump, arguably true
in some respects, was his naming CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and major
newspapers, calling them “enemies of the American people.” While
over-generalized and excessively pointed, it could be compared to similar
sentiments that we’ve heard from Barack Obama and numerous Democrats and
leftists over the last 15+ years.

Liberals and progressives would be hypocritical to
condemn Trump unless they had spoken out against, for instance, Obama’s
repeated disparagement and ad hominem attacks against Fox News, Rush Limbaugh,
the Tea Party movement, etc. Isn’t it rich with irony that the same liberals
that mocked, insulted and hurled foul “tea bag” epithets at Tea Party
adherents, now praise, support and cheer Trump resisters as “the left’s Tea
Party”? They’re all hypocrites.

I am convinced that much of the left-leaning MSN
secretly, if not openly, consider President Donald Trump to be an “enemy of the
American people.” In tweets, on Facebook and other social media, some
reporters, editors and supposedly “objective” journalists—who revel in the
First Amendment’s freedom of the press—have made no secret of their hatred for
Trump, his family, his supporters, conservatives and Republicans in general.

Their tweets are often deleted, but such vituperation
exists; it energizes, colors and slants their coverage of everything he says,
proposes and enacts. Are they “Enemies of the American people”? No, they’re just bitter, implacable foes who
despise all supporters of President Trump.

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